Arab Legion

The Arab Legion was the regular army of Transjordan and Jordan from 22 October 1920 to 25 March 1956. When it was founded by Frederick Gerard Peake in 1920, 80% of its fighters were Chechens, and it later recruited Arabs. John Bagot Glubb was its most famous commander, leading it from 1939 to 1956. It saw action under its United Kingdom protector in World War II in the Anglo-Iraqi War in 1941 and the campaign in Lebanon and Syria against Vichy France, and after the independence of Transjordan, the Arab Legion fought in the First Arab-Israeli War of 1948. It was disbanded in 1956 by King Hussein I of Jordan, who replaced all of the British officers in the military of Jordan with Arabs and founded the Jordanian Army to replace the colonial army.